The Facebook Privacy Thread

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Gn2Dlnd

Ok, starting to get it. However, my mom, and all those relatives, are still on Facebook, so I won't be. At least, not in the social way I am here.

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

In fact, the only bad thing about it is its too ubiquitous. I have to restrain myself sometimes because family members are on there, too.

If you take a minute to set up your Groups you can easily decide who sees which posts. I decided to distinguish between "Family" and "Cool Family", as there's certain subjects that my siblings should see but my mom shouldn't.

However, I really don't post there much except for "look at my bebe" so it's not a huge issue. I enjoy it first as a lurker, second as a way to swap links, and third for activist uses.

[Alex]

Don't know if it was already posted but I found this visualization of the change in Facebook default privacy settings over time interesting (can't speak to accuracy)

http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/

[Moonliner]

That's what's cool about the Internet.

5 College punks can take on a multibillion dollar corporation and make them nervous.

[Betty]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

That's what's cool about the Internet.

5 College punks can take on a multibillion dollar corporation and make them nervous.

Now they just need to come up with a better name.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Betty

Now they just need to come up with a better name.

Diaspora is a perfect name for a social networking platform. Maybe I just like it because I'm Jewish...

[Kevy Baby]

You know what else is cool about the internet? How easy it is to spread misinformation

Originally Posted by Moonliner

5 College punks

Originally Posted by the linked article

As Facebook completes its Galactic Senate-to-Imperial Empire transformation, four enterprising NYU students thought the world could do with a social networking service that wouldn't treat your personal information like advertiser catnip. So they started building Diaspora.

(Emphasis mine)

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Betty

Now they just need to come up with a better name.

In looking up the meaning of Diaspora on Wikipedia (yeah; I know), I like the name they used:

A diaspora (in Greek, διασπορά – "a scattering [of seeds]") is any movement of a population sharing common national and/or ethnic identity. While refugees may or may not ultimately settle in a new geographic location, the term diaspora refers to a permanently displaced and relocated collective.

[Not Afraid]

I think LoT was sort of a diaspora.

[€uroMeinke]

Another interesting graphic courtesy of the NY Times

[Ghoulish Delight]

They've caved. Kinda. Nothing functionally will be different but they're going to make the setting easier to find. And I think the stuff that's defaulting to public will no longer default to public (though that's not clear from the article).

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social....ex.html?hpt=T2